kids...if they ask I accept. Most don't ask until they graduate and go
to college, at which point they feel it is "safe" to friend me. =20
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Vi Richter
Academic Technology Coordinator
Information Technology Services
Phillips Exeter Academy
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From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Keith E Gatling
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:53 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Social Networking Policy
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Alex Ragone
<aragone@collegiateschool.org>
wrote:
> Good morning,
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> NOTE: I know that we've had this conversation before, but I couldn't=20
> find the threads in the ISED-L Archives.
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> At Collegiate School, we're looking at what our school policy on=20
> social networking between students and faculty should be.
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> Our initial inclination was to create a restriction between students=20
> and faculty 'friending' each other on social networks. But then the=20
> exceptions happen...
Ah, and the exceptions are many. For example, what do you do about the
faculty member who is also a parent, and who interacts with his kid's
friends socially IRL anyway? Does it make sense to say that you can't do
online what you can otherwise? I have to say that since one of my
students showed me how to create a Facebook page, and we checked to see
if my daughter would accept me as one of her friends, I've been getting
friend requests from my daughter's friends.
A colleague of mine has a personal policy that I think is a very wise
one.
She will not invite students to "friend" her. That's just too creepy.
But, if *they* make the first move, she'll accept. She feels that this
also helps them to realize that they're not the only ones out there in
the "social networks," and it gives her a chance to do a little "privacy
education." And she's not even a computer teacher.
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keg
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Keith E Gatling
mailto:keith@gatling.us
http://www.gatling.us/keith
The fact that I'm open-minded doesn't mean that I have to agree with
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